Bruce Bogtrotter Looks Completely Different Today

Bruce Bogtrotter Looks Completely Different Today

Puberty is a powerful thing, and for the actor who played the legendary Bruce Bogtrotter in Matilda, it has truly been a blessing.

We were all cheering Bruce, real name Jimmy Karz, on to give a big middle finger to Miss Trunchbull in the form of guzzling an entire massive chocolate cake.

Now 33-years-old Karz is a far cry from the kid we knew as Bruce and seems to have given up on acting entirely.

Here’s a video of adult Bruce trying his cake challenge again…

He did peak pretty early to be fair.

Since the age of 12 when he starred in Matilda, Karz has two other acting credits to his name. You might remember his single scene in The Wedding Singer where he played a young boy who was rebuffed by the girl he likes at a bar mitzvah.

Apart from that he was in one episode of ER in 1998, and that’s it.

Karz did reunite with the cast of Matilda in 2013 where the much more friendly looking Miss Trunchbull served him a considerably smaller cake.

I’m so proud of Jimmy Karz (AKA Bruce Bogtrotter from Matilda) bc he had the most astonishing glo up and he deserves the world pic.twitter.com/r4ZrD2uZi7

I had to be on set all day, and I had to wear the same outfit every day. The chocolate was already encrusted on this shirt I was wearing.

For continuity’s sake, every day I had to have the chocolate painted on my face the way it was painted the day before. I despised the smell of chocolate for a few weeks after that. I realized then that acting is not easy.